Re: Getting started with Lua on Cygwin

[Eric Bohlman <ericbohlman@...>]

Nels Anderson wrote:
> I'm trying to setup Lua to work in Cygwin (not natively in Windows). I 
> downloaded Lua 5.1.3 and built/installed it using "make linux." I can 
> run the interpreter without any problems. However, I'm having trouble 
> building/installing any of the common Lua libraries. I started with 
> LuaSocket, but LuaFileSystem and others seem to have the same problem.  

[snip]

> luasocket.o:luasocket.c:(.text+0x1c): undefined reference to 
> `_luaL_checkinteger'
> luasocket.o:luasocket.c:(.text+0x26): undefined reference to `_lua_gettop'
> -- [snip - more undefined reference errors in *.o]

Sounds to me like your Lua library (presumably lua51.so) isn't in any of 
the places gcc looks for libraries. Either copy it there or edit the 
makefile to set an explicit library path.